Künstliche Intelligenz: Deutschlands jüngste KI-Professorin räumt mit den größten Mythen auf

Alicia von Schenk, a relatively young AI professor, is debunking the most common misconceptions about artificial intelligence. Born with an early inclination towards knowledge, von Schenk began her education at the age of four and earned a 1.0 grade point average at 15. She pursued studies in mathematics and economics at the universities of Frankfurt and Heidelberg, graduating with a summa cum laude honors degree in economics, with a focus on the effects of AI, at the tender age of 30.

Von Schenk was appointed a professor on a lifetime contract, a rarity in Germany where the typical starting age for professors is around 44. Currently, she heads the Chair of "Economics of AI and Human Behavior" at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, one of the few academic positions in Germany that explicitly targets the economic and behavioral impacts of AI.

Despite the hype, von Schenk emphasizes that there is not just one AI. She explains that AI is a broad term encompassing a wide array of technologies, from simple statistical tools to advanced generative language models like ChatGPT and complex neural networks used in machine learning. "All of this is called AI," she states. "I think it's too undifferentiated."